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What his Brest . . . must vent Schmidt (Coriolanus): Compare Much Ado, ‘What his heart thinks his tongue speaks,’ [III, ii, 14]; with a metaphor which recalls Psalm lxiv, ‘Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words.’ Compare also the saying, ‘What the heart thinketh, the tongue speaketh.’
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D. The Tragedie of Coriolanus. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company.
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